Moscow knows how to bypass “computer” sanctions against Crimea
Moscow - Kyiv, January 26 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Following Apple and Google, partners HP and Dell demanded that they stop selling their products, following PayPal, eBay may stop working with Crimea, and Google may turn off its Drive cloud storage for Crimeans. But Moscow is reassuring: Crimea will download applications via VPN, and Russian traders will bring as much American-made hardware to the peninsula as they want.
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“We are studying the issue of continuing work in Crimea,” said "Kommersant" eBay spokeswoman Karina Grosheva declined to comment further.
The ban on Goodle’s activities in Crimea may affect not only contextual advertising services AdWords and AdSense, but also other Google resources, such as Drive cloud storage. “Google has a ban on making payments to anyone in Crimea, which is already technically impossible, since many international banks have stopped making payments,” says a newspaper source close to the company.
According to Svyaznoy estimates, in 2014 the share of smartphones sold based on the Android operating system from Google amounted to 85% of the market in units, tablets - 87%.
“Crimea will now be on a VPN (Virtual Private Network - a technology that provides network connections over the Internet) - this is when you contact a server, for example, in America and surf the network from there,” believes Redmadrobot technical director Artur Sakharov. Such a period of absence or prohibition of access to Android Market (formerly Google Play) and iTunes has already happened in both Ukraine and Russia. Users brought Apple gift cards, topped up their balance with them, and bought apps for themselves through American accounts. Crimea will now step back into those times.”
The publication recalls that the ban on Apple’s activities in Crimea comes into force on February 1, 2015.
Russian partners HP and Dell were also prohibited from supplying their equipment and software to Crimea. A representative of one of the retail chains told Kommersant that the company received a notification from HP about the ban on sales and contacts with legal entities registered in Crimea from February 1, 2015. According to him, HP's demand will be analyzed by the retailer's lawyers.
“If necessary, DNS will deliver Apple, HP, Dell products to the Russian peninsula of Crimea by combat swimmers,” the president of the DNS network of computer centers told the newspaper (9th place in the “Company Secret” ranking in 2014 with an average monthly turnover of 1,9 billion rubles . with stores in Sevastopol, Simferopol and Yalta) Dmitry Alekseev. “We simply won’t notice these ridiculous attempts to put a spoke in the wheels of business,” he is sure.
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